Sara Guyer
Dean, Division of Arts & Humanities
Professor, Department of English
Sara Guyer is the Irving and Jean Stone Dean of Arts & Humanities and Professor of English at UC Berkeley. Her term as Dean began in September 2021 following a career devoted to advancing the humanities, with special focus on public-private coalitions, innovative faculty research programs, the public humanities, and inclusive collaborations across the globe. During her term as dean, Arts & Humanities undergraduate enrollments at Berkeley have reached their highest level in fifteen years, and she has established new clusters of excellence in the Interdisciplinary Arts, African Humanities, and Latinx Cultural Expression. Guyer is director of the World Humanities Report, a large-scale research project with over a dozen teams on six continents and former president of the international Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes.
Guyer’s scholarship focuses on the legacies of romanticism, holocaust studies, critical theory, and the humanities itself. She is the author of Romanticism after Auschwitz and Reading with John Clare: Biopoetics, Sovereignty, Romanticism, and is coeditor of the book series Lit Z. Guyer holds a PhD in Rhetoric from UC Berkeley, an MA in Philosophy & Literature from the University of Warwick (UK), and a BA in English and American Literature and European Cultural Studies from Brandeis University.
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